Esko Tapani Aho (born May 20, 1954) is a statesman and former Prime Minister of Finland. May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Prime Minister (Finnish Pääministeri, Swedish: Statsminister) is the Head of Government in Finland. ...

Aho was born in Veteli, Finland. He was known by the nickname "Kannuksen Kennedy" ("The Kennedy of Kannus", Kannus being his hometown) due to his streamlined and well coiffed habitus, a comparison with United States President John F. Kennedy. Veteli (Vetil in Swedish) is a municipality of Finland. ... Kannus is a municipality of Finland. ... In post-structuralist thought, habitus, a concept defined by Pierre Bourdieu, is the total ideational (or, better yet, existential) environment of a person. ... The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States. ... JFK redirects here. ...

Aho was from 1990 to 2002 the chairman of the Centre Party (one of the three major Finnish political parties, somewhat on the conservative side of the centre). He was member of the Finnish eduskunta (parliament) from 1983 to 2003. Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Liberal parties | Finnish political parties | Nordic Agrarian parties ... The Elections and Parties Series Democracy Representative democracy History of democracy Referenda Liberal democracy Representation Voting Voting systems Ideology Elections Elections by country Elections by calendar Electoral systems Politics Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Related topics Political parties Parties by country Parties by name Parties by... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... The Eduskunta in Finnish, or the Riksdag in Swedish, is the parliament of Finland. ...

Aho was prime minister of conservative government (Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats and Swedish People's Party) from 1991 to 1995. He is best known for leading Finland into the European Union. Aho's own party, gaining most of its support from rural areas, opposed the EU membership, but was persuaded behind it due to prime minister's diplomacy. Aho's government faced also the deep economic depression of the early 1990s. Its harsh cut-and-save policy and its misfortunate plans to lower unemployment rate made it unpopular, which partly caused its fell in the 1995 election and Centre Party's eight-year period in opposition. Centre Party or Center Party is the designation of several parties: Centre Party - a party in Estonia Centre Party - a party in Finland Centre Party - a party in Germany Centre Party - a party in Ireland Centre Party - a party in Norway Centre Party - a party in Sweden This is a... The National Coalition Party (Kansallinen Kokoomus or Samlingspartiet) is a political party in Finland. ... Christian Democracy is a political ideology, born at the end of the 19th century, largely as a result of the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII, in which the Vatican recognizes workers misery and agrees that something should be done about it, in reaction to the rise of... Swedish Peoples Party can mean: Swedish Peoples Party - a political party in Finland Liberal Peoples Party - a political party in Sweden This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Esko Aho lost the bid for President of Finland to Tarja Halonen in 2000. After that he retired from active politics in the early initially through a "sabbatical leave" of one year to lecture at Harvard University. In the 2003 election he left parliament and retired from daily politics. Currently he serves as the president of the Sitra, the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development. The President of Finland (Suomen Tasavallan Presidentti; Republiken Finlands President) is the Head of State of Finland. ... Tarja Kaarina Halonen (born December 24, 1943) is a Finnish lawyer and politician. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... SITRA Finnish National Fund for Research and Development was founded in the year 1967 as a part of the Bank of Finland. ...

Harri Hermanni Holkeri (born January 6, 1937 in Oripää) is a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland 1987-1991, speaker of the UN General Assembly 2000-2001 and headed UNMIK. Current head is Søren Jessen-Petersen. ... The Prime Minister (Finnish Pääministeri, Swedish: Statsminister) is the head of government in Finland. ... Paavo Tapio Lipponen (b. ...

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